Tag Archives: layers

A Piece of Mars: I often use JMARS to visualize Mars data sets, especially images. They've recently updated their 3D layer, allowing folks to make lovely vistas by overlaying DTMs with images. I'm new at this, but I'll experiment and ...

A Piece of Mars: Get out your red and cyan glasses to see an old crater, which fills this 0.775x0.7 km (0.48x0.43 mi) scene. The crater punched through many thin layers when it formed, some of which you can still ...

A Piece of Mars: In a recent post (Dunes in a Colorful Hole), I showed some dunes crawling over layered terrain, with a view that looked a lot like some desert regions of Earth. Here's another spot on Mars (0.95x1.1 ...

A Piece of Mars: Gray dunes have migrated over reddish rock, moving toward a narrowing cleft surrounded by tall tan cliffs. Bright lines on the dunes are exposed internal layers (bones of the dunes, really) that show you where the ...

A Piece of Mars: Nicholas Steno was a 19th century geologist, who came up with some principles that are still used today to guide interpretation of exposed sedimentary rocks. The principles seem a bit obvious, but then some of the ...

A Piece of Mars: A low, broad dune occupies the center of this 800x450 m (0.5x0.28 mi) scene, blown by a dominant wind towards the lower left. The slip face on the lee side has several small avalanches, formed as ...

A Piece of Mars: Higher ground is to the left. You're seeing a tan layer sandwiched between two gray layers in this 0.96x0.54 km (0.6x0.34 mi) scene. Large ripples have accumulated in the lowest area to the right, which is ...

A Piece of Mars: OK, you have to bring out the red/blue glasses for this one. (Or click here if you're missing your glasses and want the black and white version.) Eberswalde crater has some lovely layered deposits, long ago ...

A Piece of Mars: HiRISE is celebrating 10 years of success by showcasing its first high resolution image, taken back in 2006. Here is a portion of it, shown at 1/4 the full resolution (the scene is 2.5x2.5 km across). ...